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And what’s a first birthday without a smash cake? Maybe I’ll have one at my next birthday 🤔😂

1st birthday this weekend. Tried some macarons again. Much better 😅

Bridal shower cake today. Chocolate and strawberry is one of my favorite combos.

Tried my hand again at macarons! Excited to keep experimenting.

Anniversary Cookie Cake for a couple that knows what they like and don’t need to settle on one flavor ❤️

Is this the equivalent of having your own bed blanket?

If you were at our wedding… can you believe that this year it will be 15?!? 🥳

Pretty in pink birthday theme!

Basketball season is upon us and I’m 🏃‍♀️ 🏀 😴

I’m squeezing in some orders when I can. I couldn’t pass up this sweet smash cake. My first time doing stripes!

Star Wars brownies. I don’t know much about Star Wars but I do know brownies 😋

Go ahead and praise your local cookie decorator… because what they do is a lot harder than they make it look 😅

I learned a lot with these and thankful for the chance to try some new techniques.

A larger recreation of one from July (posted previously). Made a few changes based on my past experience… this one is 7” rounds. Chocolate cake, edible cookie dough layers, cookie dough buttercream, Chocolate ganache, and fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.

I’m not a wine drinker but you can go ahead and pass me this bottle 😋

No side shot for this one but it is strawberries and cream. Layers of sugar cookie, plain and strawberry whip, and strawberry jam.

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Three layers of 4” chocolate cake. This size is so so cute. It’s the perfect t smash cake size for pictures and for playing. It is also great to share. It *could* serve 4-6 people with a semblance of self control (ie not me).

The frosting this time is a lightly sweetened mascarpone whipped cream 😋 mascarpone has the consistency of cream cheese without the tang.

I love this size so much… I have a few new ideas I want to try! Hint: it’s Girl Scout cookie time and I’m inspired 🍪

A box shot because sometimes that’s all I remember 😅 The seaweed is hand cut (edible) wafer paper.

A matching smash cake for a first birthday in the next post.

Never go empty handed. ❤️

Cinnamon Roll Blondies and Mini Chocolate Chip cookies

Find yourself someone that continues to celebrate you ❤️

Strawberries and cream is the #1 favorite.

A progress shot of a 4” smash cake. A textured icing comb is used at the end to get the lines. You can blend as much as you want to to blur the color lines to your preference.

Churro Cupcake

This is probably my favorite of the weekend. Cinnamon cupcake filled with dulce de leche, cinnamon buttercream, and a freshly made churro on top… with a drizzle of more dulce de leche of course 😋

Check the comments for the cross section picture 🤤

I don’t even like cake usually, but these are 🔥

Which one are you picking?

Left to right:
1 Coconut
2 Oreo
3 Milk chocolate with white chocolate
4 Fruity Pebbles
5 Heath (toffee) bar
6 White chocolate with milk chocolate

Unicorns are forever the most popular. I always have my middle child take a look and I judge the final product off the pitch of her squeal 😂. Always my hype girl.

This was my first request for a shape that wasn’t a letter or a number. I quickly learned that my oven and fridge have dimension limitations 😅

From top to bottom this was just shy of 2 feet long. This is also the first time I used primarily fruit and I couldn’t believe I doubted it when it was done.

This is the one that I also created my recipe for Oreo whipped cream. There is a very specific consistency I need to be able to hold up four layers of cookies and not flattening out.

If you don’t have a willing group of honest taste testers on your life, find them, feed them, and hold them close. Thinking about it… I need to test something soon so they don’t think I forgot about them 😂

(See next post for a video)

We went for a bike ride today as a family and I’m ready for spring and warmer weather. Here are some flowers to help if you’re feeling the same way.

I’m about to make another ombré but this time in blues. So figured I would dig up my first ombré cake photo.

These cookies are red velvet and the whipped cream is cream cheese flavored.

These are gingerbread oatmeal cookies with glaze. I didn’t think I would love them as much as I did. As soon as they started baking I knew it would be a winner. They have quickly moved to the top of my Christmas cookie list. I’ll be making them again before December.

If you tried these from me, I’d love to know what you thought! Also feel free to share your favorite Christmas cookie (I’m aware we are in January but I’m just pretending 2022 hasn’t started yet 😅)

They come together really easy if you want to give them a try:

Sally's Baking Addiction

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/iced-gingerbread-oatmeal-cookies/

These rocks are… edible!

As a follow up to the banana slug post, these little things deserved a mention.

These are made with a base of white chocolate and condensed milk (basically modeling chocolate).

Then I added various amounts of cocoa powder and crushed Oreos to get variety. The more they dried the less glossy they got. I was too excited to wait to take a picture 😅

Don’t miss the video posted before this, but here are some still shots of the UCSC cake. Complete with edible banana slugs. I *almost* filled them with banana pudding. Next time 😂

Icecream cake! This has vanilla cake and a fudgy Oreo crunch layer with Oreo icecream in the middle. Topped with chocolate ganache.

This is my first attempt at an icecream cake and I learned a lot… mostly… you gotta be fast!

Here is a view of the whole cookie cake. I call it strawberry lemonade- strawberry whip and lemon curd with sugar cookie layers.

Strawberry lemonade. I’m ready for some warmer weather and strawberry season.

Strawberry whipped cream and homemade lemon curd 😋

Cookie dough dreams 🍪 filled with edible cookie dough (no eggs and the flour is heat treated) and chocolate cake. Covered in cookie dough buttercream and chocolate ganache. This one was just 4”x6”. She is small but mighty. I’ll add a picture of the inside in the comments.

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I sang the entire time I made this one 🤪

If you are singing too… you’re welcome 😂

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1st birthday fit for a king! This one was so fun and I learned a lot about sugar cookie decorating 😅

This is hand cut sugar cookies with layers of strawberry and plain whipped cream and strawberry jam.